Gordon Blitz

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After forty years as an accountant, he retired in 2017 and became a passionate writing machine. As a senior LGBTQ+ man, he has a unique perspective on the many facets of being LGBTQ+ for the last fifty years. He is a diverse multi-media creative artist, novelist, playwright and performer.

A Homeless Thanksgiving had a reading in 2025 as part of the Talking It Out Festival at the Spit & Vigor Blackbox Theatre in New York City. The short play, The Aftermath, was published in the June, 2025 issue of Mini Plays Review. Additionally, his play, Climate Change, was selected for the Climate Action New Play Collective at DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois. The monologue, Transplant, was accepted and performed in the 11-hour performance art show, 321 Plays for Trans Futures, in Chicago, Illinois; and the monologues, The Important Things We Keep Hidden, and Agoraphobia were selected for publication in the Summer 2025 and Summer 2026 issues of The Soliloquist, respectively. The play, Reflections of A Teenage Jewish Lesbian, was performed in September, 2025 as part of the Tiger’s Heart Festival in New York City. In 2025, the monologue, Caged, won the Go Write a Play competition given by the Kumu Kahua Theatre in Honolulu, Hawaii. The Spokane Falls Community College Spartan Theater included the play, Scared Ethel, in their Fall, 2025 New Works / Reader’s Theatre Festival. The monologues, Devon’s Confession and Melanie’s Confession, from the play, A Homeless Thanksgiving, will be published by Smith and Klaus in their anthology, The Best Men’s and Women’s Stage Monologues for 2026. The short play, The Ruby Slippers, was published by The Door Ajar Literary Magazine in their Spring Issue, 2026. The monologue, My Wedding Day, was featured at the Geffen Theater Senior Adult Story Telling Workshop in Los Angeles, California in 2026. His monologue, Bonded, was broadcast on the episode called What the Body Keeps on the RISK! Podcast. The monologues, Stand Straight and The Golden GBs, were featured on Joshua Castro’s The Vaudeville Stage podcast in 2025 and 2026, respectively. The Three Faces of Bear was published in the September 2026 issue of Umbrellas for Fish.